The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-14
WE ARE LAGGARDS.
JUDGE KELLEY, OF PENNSYLVANIA
GIVES US A POINTER ON
PROGRESS,
He Thinks Diversity OF Industry is Saliva
ton and Speaks Word
For Sorghum,

al and Commercial Conference, which
was in session at Louisville last week.
The address is full of interest to the peo-
pie of this section, and we give below the
most importand part of his remarks;
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMAN OF
THE CONVENTION Each hour, indeed
l may say each minute, increases the
pleasantness of my stay among you. The
happiness ] am enjoying in this visit is
simply ineXpressibe, for it seems to me
a season OF fluctuations and season Of
friendly greetings promising future Of
union and pleasantries. am going to
ask question or two about Kentucky,
and am coming to one you will not cheer.
"Why is Kentucky a laggard among
other States, and especially among the
regenerated Southern States? Why is 4
State so endowed and whose genealogy
is such as to produce the bravcst and
most intellectual of men and the loylicst
of females, not only in the Union, but in
the world; whose racers and cattle are
such that no imported stock can linger
long in their glorious Bluegrass home but
it is improved; why State not only en-
dowed with these, but whose coal and
other mineral resources exceed in guam
tity the combination of coal and iron
resources in any State in the Union, who
possesses more miles of navigable rivers
than any of the States; why, with all
this added to her distinguished men and
lovely women, she is behind not only the
sister States but the most of those of the
South? Why are people emmigrating
from the lOveliest land in the world, and
this conference here discussing the neces-
sity of immigration to her borders %
There is something wrong, and in what
/ have seen of this conference it seems
to me that it's members are asking each
other, "What shall we do to be saved ~
A short time ago visited the South; ;
tories, founderies and institutions of
learning; at Atlanta, Birmingham and
the other growing cities of that regener'
ated land. For three weeks | fingered
in the garden fields of the Union that
State, Florida, whose growth compared
with Northern States admitted to the
Union at the same time, though slow, is
yet land of granduer. The foremost
among the nOn-mineral producing States
will in the future be the land that blends
the soil and climate of all lands, Florida
the Unions garden farms the golden tip
of the South.
had one regret about that visit which
grew upon me. | did not include Ken
lucky in it.
"What brings you here now," | hear
you ask, besides that invitations" which,
by the way, was enough for anybody.
! will answer you as | did the people of
the South. / have come, gentlemen, 20
plead with you to avail yourselves of the
mineral resources you are full Of, especial
ly your fuel; to plead with you to avail
yourselves and your postcrity Of the
wealth lying at your feet, by the neglect
Of which YOU have impoverished yGur-
selves to the profit of us people OF the
North. j came TO ask you why you will
not make your own plows, your own
harrow teeth and the tens of thousands
feet Of wire with which you fence your
farms. Why you will let lay idle the
bouudless mineral wealth offered to you
by a generous Providence, mineral stores
Of which You possess more than any other
State, and thousands Of miles more than
the whole of the British Isles? Why will
you not give up cotton 10 an extent that
we protected people would have 10 pay
a decent price for the cotton from which
we make our shirts and sheets?
After lengthy review Of the compar.
alive mineral wealth Of the States the
progress of those devoted TO
agriculture and the agricultural
States, with various sharp bits at the
perfection Of protection, the speaker
What makes Kentucky a laggard
You want diversity Of pursuits. The
people who all follow the same employ
ment, are great part Of the time an
die people. Don't laugh, gentlemen, at
the two counties of your State which
reported sorghum as their special pro-
iuct. Sorghum is doing more 10 revolu-
.ionizc the world than Napoleon did
when he taxed the sugar o. France,
Sugar has now a higher Eria on IL than
ever before and IL i, cheaper than ever
before known. / could name YOU a
hundred projected articles which ara
cheaper now than the duty laid upon
hrnt.
Why il Kentucky a laggard? There
S something wrong. Kentucky, which
ormurly furnished more iron than any
staJc IN the Union, has dropped 10 eth
place, has in the last six months fallen
behind the previous six, while Alabama
vas lvanced her production Of iron 90
,er cent. stand In city which should
be % the Southwest what Chlcn@1 h 10
he same c0untry Of the North But
,ne city Of ,he South, New Orleans,